Abstract: Includes minutes, reports, newsletters, awards, photographs, and artifacts pertaining to the Western Association of Women
Historians records.

Conditions Governing Access note

Collection is open for research. Some restrictions may apply.

Accruals note

Updates to the collection will be submitted to CSUS Special Collections and University Archives annually.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Deed of Gift between California State University, Sacramento Library and WAWH was signed August 17, 2005. Transfers of additional
records will be made annually by the organization.

History of the Organization

The Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) is an organization of women historians and independent scholars founded
in 1969 to "promote the interests of women historians both in academic settings and in the field of history generally." The
organization was founded by academic historians Grace Larsen (President, 1969) and Linda Kerber (Secretary, 1969.) Known as
the West Coast History Association from 1969-1972, the organization brought together women historians in colleges and universities
to share scholarship and develop professional networking in a casual environment. The organization changed its name in 1972
to the West Coast Association of Women Historians (WCAWH). And in 1980 the organization became the Western Association of
Women Historians (WAWH). Drawing scholars from the Western states, the WAWH is the largest of the regional women's historical
associations in the U.S. In addition to academic historians, WAWH also welcomes literary scholars, art, theater, and film
specialists. Along with promoting scholarship and networking of women historians, WAHA activities include improving employment
and scholarly opportunities for women historians, enhancing the study of women in mainstream history, and exploring new teaching
skills.

The WAWH annual conference includes presentations of scholarly papers, new research, discussions of teaching methods, and
other issues of importance to women scholars. Sessions devoted to the work and interests of graduate students are encouraged.
Five prizes are presented annually at the Awards Banquet.

[Identification of item], Western Association of Women Historians records, MSS 2005/02, Department of Special Collections
and University Archives, The Library, California State University, Sacramento.

Processed by:

Reiko Nagumo, November 2010

Conditions Governing Use note

Copyright is protected by the copyright law, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code. Requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce
from collections must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Permission for publication is given on the behalf of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, The Library,
California State University, Sacramento as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include permission of the
copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred Citation note

[Identification of item including date], [Folder Title], MSS 2005/02, Western Association of Women Historians records, Department
of Special Collections and University Archives, The Library, California State University, Sacramento.

Restrictions

Copyright is protected by the copyright law, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code. Requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce
from collections must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Permission for publication is given on the behalf of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, The Library,
California State University, Sacramento as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include permission of the
copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Scope and Contents note

WAHA has amassed a collection of minutes of Executive Board meetings and Business meetings, written and electronic communications
of Executive Board Committee members, communications of Award and Prize Committee members, program reports, programs of Annual
Conferences, newsletters, and artifacts related to the organization. Given the duration of the organizations' history some
communications are missing. There are multiple copies of some materials. Updates to the collection will be submitted to CSUS
Department of Special Collections and University Archives annually.

Includes WCAWH and WAWH Constitution and Bylaws, agendas and minutes of the Executive Board Committee and of the Business
Meeting, reports from the Executive Director, President, Graduate Representatives, and a diverse variety of program committee
reports.

Box 1, Folder 1

Constitutions, Bylaws, Duties of Officers/Committees, and Amendments of the WCAWH and WAWH,1972-2006

Arranged in chronological order. Includes Conference programs, call for papers, attendance lists, hotel and meeting room contracts,
receipts, biographies of speakers, correspondence, and miscellaneous material associated with the conference which was held
in the spring of each year. Copies of some of the papers presented and resumes of some presenters who participated at the
annual conference for the years 1983 through 1989 are also included in this series.

Copies of papers presented: Ludlow, Dorothy, “The Literature of Sectarian Sexual Promiscuity” Thorne, Tanis C., “Maintaining
Social Order and Ethnic Boundaries: Miscegenation and the Women of New France.”

Copy of a proposal by Jean Wilkinson and Lyn Reese for the creation of a “WAWH Task Force dedicated to the monitoring and
evaluation of social science text books, K -12” to achieve “ improvement in gender balance in texts.” Copy of paper presented:
Puz, Susan Kullmann, Student-Centered teaching and Feminist pedagogy: Practical Implications.”

Box 1, Folder 16

WAWH Annual Conference,1992-1995

Note:

Includes Conference Program (1992-1995); planning notes, forms and correspondence.

Box 1, Folder 17

WAWH Annual Conference,1996-1999

Note:

Includes Conference Program (1996-1999); planning notes and correspondence.

Box 1, Folder 18

WAWH Annual Conference,2000-2006

Note:

Includes Conference Program (2000-2006); planning notes and correspondence.

Incomplete runs of Quarterly Newsletters of the WAWH and Membership Directories, copies of
Histories of the Western Association of Women Historians 1969-1994, WAWH Membership Application forms 1983-2004 (incomplete), and various non-WAWH publications.

Includes incomplete runs of the Quarterly Newsletter of the WAWH from 1970-2011. The Newsletter has had three different titles
during its publication: (1)
The West Coast Association of Women Historians Newsletter (1970 to 1980); (2)
The Western Association of Women Historians Newsletter (1980 to 1982); and (3)
The Networker (1982 to the present).

Includes: The CCWH Newsletter (Newsletter for the Coordinating Council for Women in History), Vol. 36, #1, 2005 National Women’s
Studies Association Program Directory, Fall 1994 CCWHP Newsletter (The Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession),
Vol 7, #3, 1976

Series 4: Awards and Prizes,
1982-2010

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by the name of the prize, this series contains the reports, by-laws, list of winners, and correspondence
for the six prizes the WAWH awards annually. The prizes are: (1) The Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize; (2) the Founders’
Dissertation Fellowship; (3) the Judith Lee Ridge Prize given for the best article in the field of history published by a
WAWH member; (4) the Barbara Penny Kanner prize for the best scholarly bibliographical and historical guide to research focused
on women or gender history; (5) the Gita Chaudhuri Prize for the best monograph about rural women published by a WAWH member;
and (6) the Keller-Sierra Prize for the best monograph published by a WAWH member. Also included in this series are the articles
submitted in 1989 for the Judith Lee Ridge Prize.

Box 2, Folder 13

Gita Chauduri Prize Winners,2010-present

Box 2, Folder 14

Founder’s Dissertation Fellowship Winners,1999-2010

Box 2, Folder 15

Graduate Student Fellowship Winners,1986-2010

Box 2, Folder 16

Barbara Kanner Award Winners,1994-2010

Box 2, Folder 17

Keller-Sierra Book Prize Winners,1982-2010

Box 2, Folder 18

Judith Lee Ridge Prize Winners,1985-2010

Box 2, Folder 19

Copies of Articles submitted for Ridge Prize,1989

Box 2, Folder 20

Huntington Library Women’s Studies Seminar,June 1986

Series 5: Photographs,
2000-2001

Arrangement note

This series is comprised of 38 color snapshots from the 2000 and 2001 annual conferences.

Box 2, Folder 21

WAWH Photographs: Annual Conferences, 2000, 2001

Series 6: Other Materials,
n.d.

Arrangement note

This series contains photocopies of 2 meeting notices for Women Historians of the Bay Area, notice of Fall meeting of No.
California Branch of West Coast Association of Women Historians, a list of courses in Women’s History from the Coordinating
Committee on Women in the Historical Profession (1970-71), letter from Jeffrey C. Alexander and Ruth H. Bloch to Professor
Eugen Weber (1978, photocopy), letter on WAWH letterhead from Frances Keller, 1st Vice Preside and President-Elect to Professor
Bernard Bailyn, Chairman, AHA Committee (1980, photocopy), the WAWH song.

Box 2, Folder 22

2 meeting notices for Women Historians of the Bay Area, notice of Fall meeting of No. California Branch of West Coast Association
of Women Historians, a list of courses in Women’s History from the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession
(1970-71), letter from Jeffrey C. Alexander and Ruth H. Bloch to Professor Eugen Weber (1978), letter on WAWH letterhead from
Frances Keller 1st Vice Preside and President-Elect to Professor Bernard Bailyn, Chairman, AHA Committee (1980), the WAWH
Song.
1970-1971; 1978; 1980